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Rava
2021-12-13, 17:58
I wanted first to test Kali prior installation, so I choose the Rescue option.

It went well until I got to network setup. It wanted rtl8168e-1.fw + bcm43xx-0.fw - or more precisely rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw and brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw

Duckduckgo search gave me this post https://forums.kali.org/showthread.php?20995-Installing-firmware-rtl8105e-1-fw-amp-rtl8192cfw-bin

use a USB Flash Drive during installation with the firmware on the USB you can either put in
the root directory of your USB
I downloaded the firmware from https://github.com/cernekee/linux-firmware/blob/master/brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw and https://github.com/mdamt/linux-firmware/blob/master/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw and put both into usb thumbdrive root and into folders as named by Kali

/ # ls -l /mnt/sdd1/*fw /mnt/sdd1/rtl_nic/* /mnt/sdd1/brcm/*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 96224 Dec 13 12:48 /mnt/sdd1/bcm43xx-0.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 96224 Dec 13 12:55 /mnt/sdd1/brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2804 Dec 13 12:48 /mnt/sdd1/rtl8168e-3.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2804 Dec 13 12:55 /mnt/sdd1/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw

still it did not work. Here what the info console reported:

Dec 13 12:57:28 kernel: [ 3076.904064] libphy: r8169: probed
Dec 13 12:57:28 kernel: [ 3076.904434] r8169 0000:02:00.0 eth0: RTL8168e/8111e, 70:5a:b6:c1:eb:ac, XID 2c1, IRQ 32
Dec 13 12:57:28 kernel: [ 3076.904442] r8169 0000:02:00.0 eth0: jumbo features [frames: 9194 bytes, tx checksumming: ko]
Dec 13 12:57:28 net/hw-detect.hotplug: Detected hotpluggable network interface eth0
Dec 13 12:57:28 check-missing-firmware: taking network interface eth0 up/down
Dec 13 12:57:28 kernel: [ 3076.921516] r8169 0000:02:00.0: firmware: failed to load rtl_nic/rtl8168e-1.fw (-2)
Dec 13 12:57:28 kernel: [ 3076.921528] r8169 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for rtl_nic/rtl8168e-1.fw failed with error -2
Dec 13 12:57:28 kernel: [ 3076.921536] r8169 0000:02:00.0: Unable to load firmware rtl_nic/rtl8168e-1.fw (-2)
Dec 13 12:57:28 kernel: [ 3076.922744] RTL8211DN Gigabit Ethernet r8169-0-200:00: attached PHY driver (mii_bus:phy_addr=r8169-0-200:00, irq=MAC)
Dec 13 12:57:28 kernel: [ 3076.998938] r8169 0000:02:00.0 eth0: Link is Down
Dec 13 12:57:28 check-missing-firmware: taking network interface wlan0 up/down
Dec 13 12:57:28 kernel: [ 3077.004496] brcmsmac bcma0:1: firmware: failed to load brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw (-2)
Dec 13 12:57:28 kernel: [ 3077.004505] brcmsmac bcma0:1: Direct firmware load for brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw failed with error -2
Dec 13 12:57:29 check-missing-firmware: looking at dmesg again, restarting from timestamp: [ 2689.438089]
Dec 13 12:57:29 check-missing-firmware: timestamp found, truncating dmesg accordingly
Dec 13 12:57:29 check-missing-firmware: saving timestamp for a later use: [ 3077.004505]
Dec 13 12:57:29 check-missing-firmware: looking for firmware file rtl_nic/rtl8168e-1.fw requested by r8169
Dec 13 12:57:29 check-missing-firmware: looking for firmware file brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw requested by brcmsmac
Dec 13 12:57:29 check-missing-firmware: missing firmware files (rtl_nic/rtl8168e-1.fw brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw) for brcmsmac r8169